| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War. Ed. by Joan E. Cashin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii, 397 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-691-09173-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-691-09174-9.)

Joan E. Cashin has done a great service for students of the American Civil War by editing an exceptional collection of original essays that focus on the connections between the front lines and the home front. Divided into three sections dealing with the South, the North, and the border region, The War Was You and Me covers topics ranging from Virginia war widows to the impact of the Gettysburg campaign on African American civilians. Part of Cashin's success comes from her ability to solicit work from a group of accomplished scholars, no mean task given that most of the contributors are actively engaged in larger projects of their own. George Rable, Matthew Gallman, Elizabeth Leonard, and Joseph Glatthaar, for example, have already established themselves as leading contributors to our understanding of nineteenth-century life and will continue to shape our understanding of the era for some time to come.

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